Week 3 - First Iteration

Rippl Campaign Script:

Its easier than you know to create a rippl in the world.  Launch your own Rippl Campaign!


To begin, just fill in the blanks:  

Welcome to my Rippl Campaign!  Within every person is the potential to affect change. It doesn't matter how much money you have, what your high school GPA was, or how good looking you are; only that you have a passionate interest in making the world a better place. 


Today I am writing to ask for your help in achieving my Rippl Goal of ________ pledges to ________________________________. 

Can I count on you to join me and pass the new of this campaign along to friends?  Let's make a ripple in the world!

Rippl Facebook entry mock-up

System Map of the Rippl Campaign

Rippl Website script:

Promotes the Rippl app, helps users generate ideas, expands functionality of app.

Who We Are & What We Stand For
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." — Margaret Mead

Making a Rippl in the World:

Each and every one of us has the power to change the world.  It starts by making a small splash that turns into a ripple.  As it inspires people to join and share, it grows exponentially, until it becomes a wave of positive energy that creates change in the world.  Join your friends as we make the world better, ripple by ripple.

Do you have a change you want to encourage?  Join in at Rippl.  We help you turn your splash into a ripple that can turn into a wave.

Rippl is a social entrepreneurship / social change venture based in the Pacific Northwest.  It began as a team project for the Social Media for Social Change class at Bainbridge Graduate Institute.  We believe that if enough people participate, small actions have big impacts.  Rippl is a tool to spread your ideas for small actions, to inspire others to join in, to give friends and supporters an easy way to spread the idea to their friends and supporters and turn a ripple into a wave.

Rippl is a free and easy-to-use platform that supports zillions of good ideas by making it easy to spread them like ripples that build into waves of positive energy all around the world. What is your idea for small splash that can ripple into the world?

Getting started is as easy as 1-2-3.  Using the power of (email, Facebook) just fill in the blanks, and launch a campaign.  Rippl makes it easy to share the campaign with your social network.  The Facebook version lets you see how people all over the world join in and spread the campaign.  

Expand your network:

Rippl campaigns grow by connecting with people who share your interests.  Click here to assign an optional Rippl category to your campaign:

• Environment
• Human Rights
• LGBT
• Women
• Minority peoples
• Children
• International
• Animal Welfare
• Education
• Health & Family
• Politics
• Other: 
  

Rippl Reports Page

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Rippl Campaign Examples & Ideas

Featured Rippl Campaigns (each example would show number of Ripplrs and number needed toward the goal)

Popular Rippl Campaigns

Recent Rippl Campaigns

Rippl Campaign Examples and Stories

• Bag the Bag:  A Rippl campaign where Ripplrs pledge to use re-usable bags one time per week for 3 months.  Each Ripplr who joins this campaign will save the planet from manufacturing, buying, and disposing of 12 wasteful single-use disposable bags.
• A Can A Day:  A Rippl campaign where Ripplrs pledge to donate 30 cans of food to a local food bank.  This represents a can a day, and will generate 15 lbs of food for each Ripplr who joins.
• A Mile in Your Shoes:  A Rippl campaign where Ripplrs pledge to walk at least a mile every other day for 4 weeks.  Each Ripplr who joins this campaign will log 17 miles of healthy relaxing walks to their lives.
• Yoga Poseur:  A Rippl campaign where Ripplrs pledge to practice yoga once a day for a week.  Each Ripplr who joins will enjoy the benefits of calming, invigorating yoga.
• Random Acts of Kindness:  A Rippl campaign where Ripplrs pledge to practice random acts of kindness and share them with each other at www.blahblahblah.com. 

Rippl Global Splash Map showing real-time splash updates(i.e. http://www.change.org/#map  )

Team Meeting Notes: Week 3

1.  Discussion
Share storyboard via powerpoint slides of each part.  Recorded Steve on Blackboard as he explained the pitch.  Too bad the mic was off and we didnt capture it.  Will share the Powerpoint.  Dave may be able to turn it into a Prezi.  

The application itself will be a start toward the ultimate vision due to complexity of coding it in FB
Dave shared example of FB app page based on his BranchOut page.  http://www.creativevisioneering.com/facebookapps/rippl/facebookappexample.png

2. Dave is coding Facebook app:

Technical problems, learning, but it is coming along.  

Capabilties include:
Left - build a network using a profile function
Middle - add people to your network section.  This is a program. Could be our click here to start section.  This would bring you to series of windows where you answer questions (inputs).  It would use the collected data to create something - a campaign, or a FB page you could invite people to (advantage of using existing tool),

3.  Next Steps
Dave - Keep on coding and learning
What will iteration “look” like?
         Video or storyboard that advertises the app?  

Video:  Have you ever felt like there is nothing you can do?  But you can do something.  Small changes ripple out into the world and can have huge impacts.  Erich made great sketch people.

Screencast using drawings and screenshots.  Instruction sheet with how to launch a change campaign.

Steve to try loading Powerpoint with voicecast into Prezi as way to learn Prezi.  What about audio.  Maybe Slidecast???  Focus on it T or W.

Dave - condense our 3 docs into one to submit this evening.

4.   Team After Action Review - Plus/Delta

Some confusion as to what “iteration: actually is.  It may be that we have an internal iteration now, when we turn it into something we can share outside out circle it will be iteration #2, and when we revise it according to what we learn, it will be iteration #3.

Good Use of Online Technology! Blackboard helped share visuals (repsonse to previous delta suggestions)

Team meetings have been great! Unanimous!

Very pleased with the way Steve broke up the overall flowchart storyboard and shared it in pieces as ppt.